Sentence examples for spectacular measures from inspiring English sources

Union workers at Opel have been protesting G.M.'s indecision, with their leader threatening "spectacular measures" to force the company into settling the matter.

If the president is not persuaded finally to sign the treaty, the government may reach for more decisive and spectacular measures, including a senate lawsuit against president Klaus for conduct against the constitutional order.

(See "RHJ Speeds Ahead To Bag Opel").. On Monday, an Opel union leader called on GM to pick a buyer this weekand threatened "spectacular measures" if a decision wasn't made soon.

This does not mean spectacular measures but putting in place the solid foundations without which it is impossible to sustainably raise the health level of a population.

But this spectacular measure did not achieve the anticipated result.

The respected financial daily Les Echos described it as a "spectacular measure", coming as the former leader plans his political comeback.

We're seeing in small, yet spectacular measure that Hakeem is growing up, and is coming for the crown of the King Lucious.

The results were spectacular: Magnetometry measures the tiny differences in magnetic field produced by different materials below the surface.

Less spectacular preventive measures are commonly taken as routine steps in practical forestry to lessen anticipated losses.

But for the last 60 years Greenwich's favorite Revolutionary icon -- depicted in a spectacular mural measuring 9 feet by 22 feet and created by the W.P.A. artist James Daugherty -- was helplessly pummeled by basketballs and volleyballs in an elementary school gymnasium, the canvas having been glued directly onto the plaster wall between two basketball hoops.

He began playing regularly in tournaments, and his progress was, by chess measures, spectacular.